Democrats Independent Woes

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Democrats Independent Woes
FILE - In this April 14, 2010 file photo, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate committee charged with electing Democrats, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. In any other year, Sestak, a son of the pivotally important Philadelphia suburbs who is running for the Senate _ would be favored to win the swing-voting region and, thus, the swing-voting state. But, with independent voters shifting away from the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama here and everywhere, the congressman has got his work cut out for him _ even in his own backyard. Some 1.2 million more Pennsylvanians call themselves Democrats than Republicans following an Obama-led registration push in 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)